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Physicists have determined the mass of the W boson with the highest precision yet by analysing more than a billion proton ...

Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic particles than ever ...

A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is, indeed, the Higgs boson, the particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass, scientists reported today ...

"When my student showed me the data I thought she must be wrong," Boston College professor and lead researcher Kenneth Burch told Live Science. "It's not every day you find a new particle sitting on ...

On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN confirmed the observation of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle first proposed in the 1960s. The boson’s discovery was a momentous occasion, as it meant ...

Javier Duarte kicked off his scientific career by witnessing the biggest particle physics event in decades. On July 4, 2012, scientists at the laboratory CERN near Geneva announced the discovery of ...

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Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles get their mass won him the Nobel prize in 2013 and formed a key ingredient in the ...

The IceCube Collaboration. Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube. Nature. Vol. 591, March 11, 2021, p. 220. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03256-1. The ATLAS Collaboration.